How single-stream recycling works — and how your choices can make it work better

The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...
Wired

Scientists Figured Out How to Recycle Plastic by Vaporizing It

Our planet is choking on plastics. Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and ...
Good News Network

Biodegradable Plastic Made from Bamboo Is Stronger and Easy to Recycle

The rigid yet biodegradable plastic outperforms not only alternative biodegradable options, but plastic itself for mechanical ...

Mechanical method uses collisions to break down plastic for sustainable recycling

While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues ...
Napa Valley Register

The Napa Valley Climate Connection: Wineries join forces to reduce plastic waste

Wineries seeking sustainable certification, such as Napa Green, must address what happens to their waste. The search for how to recycle plastic waste led to the formation of the Wine Industry Zero ...
NPR

The importance of recycling plastic may be a myth

So many of us have grown up learning not to throw away plastics - right? -like, that they belong in the recycling bin, not the trash. Well now, California is suing ExxonMobil and saying that that is a ...